I just saw the harrowing Mexican documentary Presumed Guilty online.You can watch it, and should…
El Velador by young Mexican filmmaker Natalia Almada, is a documentary only in the sense that it is not a fictional film. It narrows down its focus on the reality of drug violence in the northern state of Sinaloa, Mexico by following the daily routine of an impoverished caretaker at a grotesque and rapidly…
This is the film that won this year’s Palme D’Or at Cannes.Like all of extraordinary Thai director Apitchapong Weeraseethakul’s movies, Uncle Boonmee it is a strange, transfixing melange of narratives that do not follow the traditional three-act…
For modern audiences this Victorian tale of romantic woe may be a little frustrating. So the guy is married to a crazy bitch? So what, Jane Eyre? Worst things have happened. Haven’t you heard about the pursuit of happiness? Get a life!In the age of Snooki and the Kardashians, we are very far from the…
People think that Pixar can do no wrong. Yet Toy Story 3, a movie that made the cut for Best Picture Oscar last year and that many people put in their ten best lists, is a perfect example of everything I think is wrong with Pixar. Their movies have become such an automated and mechanized…
This is where her life and mine intertwine somehow:1.Liz Taylor was in my childhood, even though I didn’t see her in a movie until I saw…
What a life! What an obit! Elizabeth Taylor’s spectacular obituary, a testament to a life…
Readers, the time has come.I am swooning already. In fact, half of me swoons and…
“Hedy Lamarr, the actress habitually regarded as “that most beautiful woman in Hollywood,” was a rocket scientist…
